On Friday 29 March 2002 07:55 pm, you wrote: > What are the "rules" when giving a machine a hostname? The machine in ? > does not have an external IP and there is no real hostname to give, as in > mandrake.com or something like that I am just going to use it as a > "learning box" for setting up web, ftp, Samba, etc. So can I call it > whatever I want, does it need to be, something.com? > ________________________________ > Beware the innate animosity of inanimate objects Not really, if you are going to connect to a LAN and use SAMBA it is best I think to give it a name like jerryrig.mydomain.com. If however it is an unattached rig then just give it a name like jerryrig and let it go at that. It will run just fine. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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